St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-14
Coming From the Haters of Randall
Whose Common Object is TO Get
Money From the Treasury.
4 Systematic Effort Being Made to Pref.
udice the Catholics of the United.
States Against Cleveland.
The Records Show, However, That He
Has Appointed More Catholics Than
Any Former President.

vi Illc nOWlS WHICH 20 up Ill ullc UclSllDOr-
hood of Washington against Hon. Samuel
j. Randall, chairman of the committee
on appropriations. Mr.. Randall is
blamed, censured and villified for every
thing done and undone, for things visi-
BILE and invisible, for legislation which
was never enacted, for everybody's
sins of commission and of omission.
All the jobbers of great repute and Of
no repute, all the thieves who infest the
national legislature, all the plunderers
with and without schemes, every man
and every woman-loafers, lobbyists,
sharps and shysters, cranks and crooks
whose common object is the public
treasury-jOin in and swell the chorus
of indignation. The 'genius" who
wanted an appropriation to test his
patent for revOlutioniZing our system of
ordnance; the scientific man"
who had specific (and will have
it again at the next con-
gress) against yellow fever and a pana-
cea for all human ailments which "com-
mon humanity demanded should be in
uSe,' was refused the ''pitiful appro-
priation" of $4,000 to enable this great
government to test" his patent; the
man-on-the-makew who wanted the law
changed so that the public printing
could be done by the lowest bidder mo
body could underbid himD argued that
his plan would save millions to the
treasury: the gas man with the anti
sewer gas patent who wanted-S50. 900 Ito
make the treasury building habitable
for human beings"
THE ''OVERwoRKED' BUREAU OFFICER,
a relic of past administrations, who sits
half the day with his legs ON his desk
and spends the other half trying to find
an easier place, applied for the ''addi
tiOnal $500 which was deducted from
his salary when the Democratic party,
under the leadership of Tilden and Ran
dali, and pledged to economy and re-
form, took possession of the house of
representatives at the Forty-fourth con-
| greSS. And yet we see no signs of Mr..
Randall's compromising. The tornado
| spends itself and the great commoner
with dauntlesS courage and matchleSS
will goes onward, apparently needless
of the clatter of the small birds of prey
around about thim-unmOved, untouched
| pursuing ever and SteadfaStly the even
tenor of his way, serving, as no other Of
his day and generation has served, his
party and his country. No man in
public life has so marked an individ-
uality as Samuel j. Randall. Probably
no man has so many enemies for such
| good reasons, as no man could better
afford to make them. In all the years of
his long public service, now nearing a
quarter of century, there has not been
a blot or stain upon his record the
the bitterest of his political enemies; !;
the widest tariff theorists; the fellows
who would walk away with the public
crib just as readily as they would hen
rOoSt; the mad men who have escaped
the fool killer; the visionary, self-con-
stituted party leaders, who would
wreck anything they could lay hands
On-even they acknowledge his purity
of character and speak with bated
breath of his honesty and integrity.
Who has done more, who so much, to
keep the Democratic party within the
original lines marked out for it by jeff
erSon, its great founder, mindful of the
peoples rights, economical, frugal,
simple, steadfast to the constitution?
CLEVELAND AND THE CATHOLICS.
1t seems that being left without any
just cause of complaint against Mr..
| Cleveland'S S administration, since it has
been proven clean, decent and honest,
and since the president has risen so far
above them that they cannot get hori-
Zontal view of his patriotism and JUS
tice, the hacks and hypocrites have
taken to lying about his prejudices
against that class of our fellow citizens
who are Catholics, alleging that he has
in his appointments Disseminated
against them. The record of the admin
istratiOn shows that since March ;, 1885,
President Cleveland has appointed TO
posts of honor, of dignity and of re-
sponsibility, three times as many Catho-
lies as held offices during the twenty
four years Immediately preceding his
administration.
Look at the list. Take, for instance,
the presidents own state. There, be-
sides half dozen poStmaSterS, we find
Daniel Magone collector of the port, at
salary half again as large as that of
the secretary of the treasury; Gen.
Martin Il. Mcmahon, the gallant soldier
and cultured, genial gentleman. marshal
for the Southern district; Alexander
McCue, a distinguished judge, solicitor
of the United States treasury. In
Massachusetts jeremiah w. Coveney, a
hero of the late war, full of wounds re-
the port; William f. Kennedy is post
master at Taunton; Thomas Flatley,
one of the brightest and brainiest
young men in the Bay state, is
deputy collector of the port. In
Pennsylvania we find William f. Har-
rity the friend of Samuel j. Randall,
postmaster at Philadelphia, while of
those holding minor federal offices there
are dozen who are Catholics. A. Leo
Knott, of Maryland, is third assistant
postmaster general; Zachariah Mont
gOmery. of California, is assistant attOr-
ney general for the department of the
interior; eX-COngressman Benjamin
Wilson, OF West Virginia, is assistant
attorney general; Albert A. Wilson,
United States marshal for the District
| of Columbia; William Nj. Mcrrick, as
sociate justice of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia; while during
| the last fortnight the president offered
the chief juSticeShip to Martin +. Morris.
of the District, a prominent Catholic, a
man of wide and varied learning and of
singular purity of life. Everybody re-
members the appointment of
| ANTHONY NJ. KELLEY, OF RICHMOND,
as minister to Italy, and subsequently
as minister to Austria; as everyone re-
calls the honor paid to Mr.. Kelley by the
| president and the secretary of state
such tributes as have seldom been paid
to any citizen of our country-when he
surrendered his commission owing to
the traditional narrOw-mindedneSs and
prejudice of Italy and the intolerable
bigotry of the ''patch upon the map of
Europe"
l might mention scores of others.
James Shields, collector of internal